Thursday 21 August 2003

10:00-13:00
Panel 1: Culture Policy and the Politics of Culture in Post-1989 Central and East Europe (Chair: Andrej Skolkay)

1.1.1 Popa, Mircea (Sextil Puscariu Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Romania): "From cultural control to publishing market policy: the case of literature."
1.1.2 Verdalle, Laure de (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, Paris, France, <deverdalle@yahoo.fr>): "Culture management and theater in post-1989 East Germany."
1.1.3 Dinescu, Ana (ZIUA: primul ziar romanesc, Romania, <anadinescu@yahoo.com>): "Romanian ethnic minorities in Central and East Europe."
1.1.4 Selyem, Zsuzsa (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, <szsuzsa@mail.dntcj.ro>): "The reception of contemporary Hungarian-Romanian literature in Romanian journals."
1.1.5 Sata, Viktor (American University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, <sataviktor@hotmail.com> & <vns990@aubg.bg>): "The Romanian press: history, ideology, and post-1989 ethics."
1.1.6 Skolkay, Andrej (University of SS. Cyril and Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia, <askolkay@marta.sk>): "The intellectual and literary press in Slovakia."

Panel 2: Cultural Traditions and the Integration of Europe (Chair: Judy Young)

1.2.1 Horolets, Anna (School of Social Research, Warsaw, Poland, <labusia@yahoo.com>): "Joining the European Union and aspects of public discourse in Poland."
1.2.2 Costea, Simion (Petru Maior University, Targu-Mures, Romania, <icsu_ms@fx.ro>): "Historical and political traditions in Romania's Process of Integration with the European Union."
1.2.3 Dungaciu, Dan (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania, <ddungaciu@hotmail.com>): "A comparative view of nationalism in West and East Europe."
1.2.4 Stefanov, Pavel (Shoumen University, Bulgaria, <p.stefanov@shu-bg.net>): "Bulgarian minorities after 1989: change and stalemate."
1.2.5 Cotoi, Calin Nicolae (University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, <calincotoi@hotmail.com>): "Social imagery and the new European identity."
1.2.6 Young, Judy (Audrac Information Services Inc., Ottawa, Canada, <jy-abcd@cyberus.ca>): "Challenges in the implementation of minorities policies in Central and East Europe: some examples from Hungary and the Czech Republic."

Panel 3: Culture and the East-West Divide in Post-1989 Central and East Europe (Chair: Antonio Eduardo Mendonca)

1.3.1 Donos, Natalia (Moldova State University, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, <nataliadonos@moldova.cc>): "Globalization, economics, and culture."
1.3.2 Glajar, Valentina (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA, <valentina.glajar@ttu.edu>): "Post-1989 representations of the Sudeten German-Czech conflict."
1.3.3 Bohutskyy, Vilhelm K. (Central European University, Warsaw, Poland, <wbohutsk@ceu.edu.pl>): "Prospects of Ukrainian culture: in-between East and West."
1.3.4 Samson, Ramona (Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, <rs.first@cbs.dk>): "The cultural dynamics of European integration in post-communist Central and East Europe."
1.3.5 Klumbyte, Neringa (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA, <nekst4@pitt.edu>): "Popular and political opposition to the liberal state in Lithuania 1995-2003."
1.3.6 Mendonca, Antonio Eduardo (New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal <antonioeduardom@mail.pt>): "Social and political changes in museums of former socialist countries."

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Plenary Speech by Dan Berindei (President, Historical Sciences and Archaeology, Romanian Academy of Sciences): "Some present-day considerations about Romanian historiography during totalitarianism."

14:30-17:30
Panel 4: Transformations of Art and Culture in Post-1989 Central and East Europe and Beyond (Chair: Pia Brinzeu)

1.4.1 Boca, Irina (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, <iboca@hotmail.com>): "The cultures of exile, case Romania."
1.4.2 Wucher, Monika (Projektgruppe, Hamburg, Germany <mw@projektgruppe.org>): "Gesellschaftliche und gemeinschaftliche Modelle in der mitteleuropäischen Kunst der 90er Jahre."
1.4.3 Varnagy, Tibor (Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary <ligal@c3.hu>): "Scandals in the Arts in 1990s Hungary."
1.4.4 Salcudean, Nicoleta (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu-Mures, Romania, <sdorin@fx.ro>): "The new conditions of the exile in post-communist societies."
1.4.5 Georgescu, Maria-Ana (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <mariageo@upm.ro>): "Perceptions of ethnicity and the cultures of the the other among Hungarian and Romanian students today."
1.4.6 Brinzeu, Pia (University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania, <pbrinzeu@mail.dnttm.ro>): "Europeanness and connecting East and West."

Panel 5: History and Historiography in Post-1989 Central and East Europe (Chair: Camil Muresan)

1.5.1 Guzner, Bridget (British Library, London, United Kingdom, <bridget.guzner@bl.uk>): "Collection-building of post-1989 Central and East European holdings of the British Library."
1.5.2 Teodor, Corina (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu Mures, Romania <icsu_ms@fx.ro>) and Keith Hitchins (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA, <khitchin@uiuc.edu>): "The history of the Orthodox Church and post-1989 Romanian and Bulgarian historiography."
1.5.3 Dorlan, Carmen Maria (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu Mures, Romania, <cardor_77@yahoo.com>) and Marian Zaloaga (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu Mures, Romania, <zaloagam@yahoo.com>): "Central European influences in post-1989 Romanian historiography."
1.5.4 Ploesteanu, Grigore (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu Mures, Romania, <icsu_ms@fx.ro>): "Post-1989 Central and East European historiography regarding the 1848 Revolution."
1.5.5 Bocsan, Nicolae (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and Stelian Mandrut (George Barit Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca, Romania): "Regional histories of the Banat and Transylvania, 1990-2000."
1.5.6 Muresan, Camil (George Barit Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca, Romania): "Theories of history in post-1989 Central Europe."

Panel 6: Culture and Society in Post-1989 Central and East Europe (Chair: Peter Hruby)

1.6.1 Szabo, Nicolae (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu Mures, Romania, <icsu_ms@fx.ro>) and Cornel Sigmirean (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu Mures, Romania, <icsu_ms@fx.ro>): "New perspectives in the history of Transylvanian students at European Universities."
1.6.2 Maxwell, Alexander (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI USA, <amaxwell@zworg.com>): "Self-marginalization: rune-writing subculture as a minority national movement in modern Hungary."
1.6.3 Drahokoupil, Jan (Central European University, Warsaw, Poland <jan.drahokoupil@ceu.edu.pl>): "Local political elites after 1989 the Czech Republic: post-communist transformation and political culture."
1.6.4 Vrnoga, Lukrecija (University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia,<lukrecijav@hotmail.com>): "The end of Czechoslovakia and the problems of transition in Slovakia."
1.6.5 Hruby, Peter (Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic, <hrubypeter@seznam.cz>): "Jews, communism, and the Soviet Secret Service."

Panel 7: History and Society in Post-1989 Central and East Europe (Chair: Alexandru Zub)

1.7.1 Boskovic, Sanja (Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, <njasa@ptt.yu>) and Gordana Bekcic (Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, <gordana@absolutok.net>): "Jovan Ducic and the cultural matrix of post-1989 nationalism in Serbia."
1.7.2 Chiorean, Ioan (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu Mures, Romania, <icsu_ms@fx.ro>): "Plaidorie pour l'étude des traditions historiques communes des peoples de l'espace post communiste."
1.7.3 Dobrescu, Vasile (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <crujan@science.uttgm.ro>) and Lucian Giura (Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania): "Romanian historiography pre- and post-1989."
1.7.4 Ploesteanu, Nicolae-Dragos (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania) and Adrian-Vasile Boanta (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania): "Aspects of Copyright in post-1989 Romania."
1.7.5 Szogi, Laszlo (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary <titkarsag@lib.elte.hu>): "A survey of recent studies on Hungarian students abroad."
1.7.6 Zub, Alexandru (A.D. Xenopol Institute, Iasi, Romania, <alzub@xenopol.is.edu.ro>): "History, memory, and morals in post-communist societies."

18:00- Reception and Dinner

Friday 22 August 2003

8:30-9:30 Plenary Speech by Gaspar M. Tamas (Philosopher, Budapest, Hungary)

9:30-10:00 Coffee Break

10:00-13:00
Panel 8: Literature in Post-1989 Central and East Europe (Chair: Carmen Andras)

2.8.1 Molnar, Sara (Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary, <msarah51@hotmail.com>): "The changes of the textual 'I' in the works of Imre Kertesz."
2.8.2 Chiorean, Luminisa (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <luminitachi@yahoo.com>): "Andrei Codrescu, candeur étrangère. Rétrospection ou démarche sur l'identité poétique."
2.8.3 Doerfler, Thomas (University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, <thomas.doerfler@uni-bayreuth.de>): "Berlin East, Berlin West, and a wall (in)visible."
2.8.4 Varnai, Paul (Ottawa, Canada, <pali.eszter@axelero.hu>): "Imre Kertesz and Holocaust Literature."
2.8.5 Andras, Carmen (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu Mures, Romania, <carmen_andras@yahoo.com>): "Romania and its images in contemporary British literature."

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-17:30
Panel 9: Culture, Translation, and Americanization in Post-1989 Romania (Chair: Virgil Stanciu)

2.9.1 Tusnea, Adriana (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <aditusnea@yahoo.com>) and Sorana Veres (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <sorana_v@yahoo.com>): "The cultures of American English and British English in post-1989 Romania."
2.9.2 Buda, Dumitru-Mircea (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <dumitru_buda@hotmail.com>): "A student's view of postmodernism in communist and post-communist Romania."
2.9.3 Stefanovici, Anda (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <andastefanovici@yahoo.com>) and Ramona-Gabriela Hosu (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <ramonahosu@yahoo.com>): "Romanian-British co-operation in higher education after 1989."
2.9.4 Peterlicean, Andrea (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <andreap24@hotmail.ro>) and Dana Rus (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <dana_rus@personal.ro>): "American software terminology in Romanian."
2.9.5 Boncheva, Kita (Bulgarian-Romanian Interuniversity Europe Centre, Rousse, Bulgaria, <harmony@elits.rousse.bg>): "Cultures in transition in post-communist societies, case Bulgaria."
2.9.6 Stanciu, Virgil (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania <vstanciu@lett.ubbcluj.ro>): "On cultural components in the translation of British and American fiction into Romanian."

Panel 10: Cultural Traditions in Central and East Europe and the Integration of Europe (Chair: Ana Maria Dobre)

2.10.1 Spielmann-Sebestyen, Mihaly (Teleki-Bolyai Library, Targu Mures, Romania, <smiska@fx.ro>): "L'Historiographie concernat les juifs de Roumaine aprés 1989."
2.10.2 Kulahci, Erol (Institute for European Policy, Brussels, Belgium, <erol.kulahci@ulb.ac.be>): "E-voting in the European Union and Central and East Europe."
2.10.3 Banarescu, Monica (Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, <mbanarescu@hotmail.com>). "The European Union and cultural diversity versus economic solidarity."
2.10.4 Coman, Ramona (European Studies, Brussels, Belgium <ramona.coman@ulb.ac.be>): "L'Impact de l'européanisation sur les partis politiques roumains."
2.10.5 Brett, Daniel (University College London, London, United Kingdom <danbrett24@aol.com>): "The revival of radical movements in Poland and Romania since 1989."
2.10.6 Dobre, Ana Maria (Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, <anamaria.dobre@soc.kuleuven.ac.be>): "Cultural traditions in post-1989 Central and East Europe and European Integration."

Panel 11: Visual Media and Music in Post-1989 Central and East Europe and Beyond (Chair: Roumiana Deltcheva)

2.11.1 Dolidze, Zviad (Shota Roustaveli Institute of Theatre and Film, Tbilisi, Georgia <eliso@geo.net.ge>): "Georgian cinema in the post-Soviet period."
2.11.2 Boros, Daniel (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu Mures, Romania, <icsu_ms@fx.ro>): "Imagology in post-1989 Romanian and Hungarian cinema."
2.11.3 Raicu, Elena (Laval University, Quebec, Canada, <elena_raicu@yahoo.com>): "Le Film documentaire anthropologique en Roumanie d'aujourd'hui."
2.11.4 Pop, Dorina (College of the Arts, Targu Mures, Romania, <sdorin@fx.ro>): "La musicologie en Roumanie d'aujourd'hui."
2.11.5 Balasa, Marin Marian (Brailoiu Institute of Ethnography and Folklore, Bucharest, Romania, <mmbalasa@hades.ro>): "Post-1989 music, musicology, and nationalisms in Hungary and Romania."
2.11.6 Deltcheva, Roumiana (Montreal, Canada,<rdeltche@yahoo.com>): "Slavi's Show: a paradox in post-1989 East European television culture."

Panel 12: From Central European Culture and Imagination to Democratization (Chair: Magdalena Marsovszky)

3.12.1 Tamas, Christian (Iasi, Romania, <arslonga@mail.dntis.ro>): "From homo sovieticus to homo occidentalis."
3.12.2 Hudecova, Eva R. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, <hude0011@umn.edu>): "The commodifications of imagination in Central and East Europe before and after 1989."
3.12.3 Munarini, Giusseppe (University of Padova, Padova, Italy): "L'Église gréco-catholique de Roumanie refletée dans l'historiographie roumaine et italienne des dernières années."
3.12.4 Lynas, Richard (University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, <richard@bonuspastor.com>): "Post-1989 Romanian youth, faith, and religion."
3.12.5 Cernat, Vasile (Gheorghe Sincai Institute, Targu Mures, Romania, <vcernat@fx.ro>): "Intergroup dynamics and ethnic-national stereotyping in post-1989 Romania."
3.12.6 Marsovszky, Magdalena (München and Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, <m.marsovszky@t-online.de>): "Möglichkeiten integrativer Kulturpolitik. Europa, Deutschland und Ungarn."

Panel 13: Media and Culture in Post-1989 Central and East Europe (Chair: Steven Totosy de Zepetnek)

2.13.1 Heintz, Monica (Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany, <heintz@eth.mpg.de>): "Post-Socialist Romanian Media, Culture, and 'Mentalities'."
2.13.2 Tereskinas, Arturas (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania, <a.tereskinas@smf.vdu.lt>): "Sexual minorities, mass media, and civil society in post-1989 Lithuania."
2.13.3 Marinova, Ekaterina Alexandrova (CARE Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria, <katya.marinova@care-bg.org> & <katyamail@abv.bg): "The media and its images of persons with disabilities in post-1989 South European cultures."
2.13.4 Radu, Bostan (Moldova State University, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, <bostancik@hotmail.com>): "Culture and the mass media in post-1989 Moldova."
2.13.5 Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven (University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and Boston, USA, <totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de>): "The reception of Nobel in literature 2002 Imre Kertesz in the media."

18:00- Reception and Dinner

Saturday 23 August 2003

8:30-9:30 Plenary Speech by Keith Hitchins (Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA): "East is East, and West is West, and the Twain Shall Meet."

9:30-10:00 Coffee Break

10:00-12:30
Panel 14: European East, European West, and Post-1989 Romanian Literature (Chair: Iulian Boldea)

3.14.1. Ciocarlie, Livius (University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France): "Cioran et les Roumains."
3.14.2 Musina, Alexandru (Transilvania University, Brasov, Romania): "Post-1989 Romanian literature between East and West."
3.14.3 Stefanescu, Dorin (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania): "Le Dialogue des cultures: entre integration et édification."
3.14.4 Martin, Mircea (University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania): "Un problème d'identité culturelle: l'Europe vue de l'Est."
3.14.5 Braga, Ion (Free International University of Moldova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, <ionbraga@yahoo.com>): "L'Iinfluence des stéréotypes ethniques dans les sociétés post-socialiste (Roumanie et la République de la Moldavie)."
3.14.6 Boldea, Iulian (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <iulianboldea@yahoo.fr>): "Le Miroir brisé. L'Ecriture autobiografique et l'histoire dans l'Europe Centrale et de l'Est d'après 1989."

Panel 15: Criticism and Literary Theory in Post-1989 Romania (Chair: Alexandru Cistelecan)

3.15.1 Cordos, Sanda (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, <sandacordos@yahoo.fr>): "La Prose roumaine d'après 1989 et le monde postcommuniste."
3.15.2 Pop, Ion (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania): "La Nouvelle poésie roumaine après 1989 et le neomodernisme poétique."
3.15.3 Enache, Eugenia (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania): "L'Image de l'intellectuel dans la presse culturelle roumaine d'après 1989."
3.15.4 Diaconu, A. Mircea (University of Suceava, Suceava, Romania, <mircea_a_diaconu@hotmail.com>): "L'Ecrivain roumain Mihail Kogalniceanu et le modèle culturel européen."
3.15.5 Moraru, Cornel (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <vatra@fx.ro>): "La Réception de l'oeuvre de Lucian Blaga après 1989."
3.15.6 Cistelecan, Alexandru (Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, <vatra@fx.ro>): "La Réception de la poésie de Tudor Arghezi après 1989."

Sunday 24 August 2003

8:30-9:30 Closing Round-table discussion and summary of the conference with conference conveners Steven Totosy, Carmen Andras, Magdalena Marsovszky and conference panel chairs Andrej Skolkay, Judy Young, Antonio Eduardo Mendonca, Camil Muresan, Peter Hruby, Pia Brinzeu, Alexandru Zub, Mihaela Irimia, Virgil Stanciu, Ana Maria Dobre, Roumiana Deltcheva, Iulian Boldea, and Alexandru Cistelecan.

9:30-10:00 Farewell by conference hosts Grigore Ploesteanu, Director, Gheorghe Sincai Institute and Vasile Bolos, Rector, Petru Maior University